Colorado Code
Part 2 - State Licensing Authority
§ 44-10-203. State Licensing Authority - Rules - Definition

(I) Qualifications and eligibility requirements for licensed medical marijuana stores, retail marijuana stores, medical marijuana transporters, and retail marijuana transporters applying for a medical marijuana delivery permit;
(II) Training requirements for personnel of medical marijuana stores, retail marijuana stores, medical marijuana transporters, and retail marijuana transporters that hold a medical marijuana or retail marijuana delivery permit who will deliver medical marijuana or medical marijuana products or retail marijuana or retail marijuana products pursuant to this article 10 and requirements that medical marijuana stores, retail marijuana stores, medical marijuana transporters, and retail marijuana transporters obtain a responsible vendor designation pursuant to section 44-10-1201 prior to conducting a delivery;
(III) Procedures for proof of medical marijuana registry and age identification and verification;
(IV) Security requirements;
(V) Delivery vehicle requirements, including requirements for surveillance;

(B) Records a medical marijuana business or retail marijuana business is required to maintain regarding its controlling beneficial owners, passive beneficial owners, and indirect financial interest holders that may be subject to disclosure at renewal or as part of any other investigation following initial licensure of a medical marijuana business or retail marijuana business;
(C) Procedures and requirements for findings of suitability pursuant to this article 10, including fees necessary to cover the direct and indirect costs of any suitability investigation;
(D) Procedures and requirements concerning the divestiture of the beneficial ownership of a person found unsuitable by the state licensing authority;
(E) Procedures, processes, and requirements for transfers of ownership involving a publicly traded corporation, including but not limited to mergers with a publicly traded corporation, investment by a publicly traded corporation, and public offerings;
(F) Designation of persons that by virtue of common control constitute controlling beneficial owners;
(G) Modification of the percentage of owner's interests that may be held by a controlling beneficial owner and passive beneficial owner;
(H) Designation of persons that qualify for an exemption from an otherwise required finding of suitability; and
(I) Designation of indirect financial interest holders and qualified institutional investors.
(II) Rules promulgated pursuant to this subsection (2)(ee) must not be any more restrictive than the requirements expressly established under this article 10.

(I) General insurance liability requirements;
(II) A sales limit per transaction for retail marijuana and retail marijuana products that may be sold to a patron of a retail marijuana hospitality and sales business; except that the sales limit established by the state licensing authority must not be an amount less than one gram of retail marijuana flower, one-quarter of one gram of retail marijuana concentrate, or a retail marijuana product containing not more than ten milligrams of active THC;
(III) Restrictions on the type of any retail marijuana or retail marijuana product authorized to be sold, including that the marijuana or product be meant for consumption in the licensed premises of the business;
(IV) Prohibitions on activity that would require additional licensure on the licensed premises, including but not limited to sales, manufacturing, or cultivation activity;
(V) Requirements for marijuana hospitality businesses and retail marijuana hospitality and sales businesses operating pursuant to section 44-10-609 or 44-10-610 in a retail food business;
(VI) Requirements for marijuana hospitality businesses and retail marijuana hospitality and sales business licensees to destroy any unconsumed marijuana or marijuana products left behind by a patron; and
(VII) Rules to ensure compliance with section 42-4-1305.5;

(I) Registration of vehicles and proper designation of vehicles used as mobile licensed premises;
(II) Surveillance cameras inside the vehicles;
(III) Global positioning system tracking and route logging in an established route manifest system;
(IV) Compliance with section 42-4-1305.5;
(V) Ensuring activity is not visible outside of the vehicle; and
(VI) Proper ventilation within the vehicle;





















Warning: Using marijuana, in any form, while you are pregnant or breastfeeding passes THC to your baby and may be harmful to your baby. There is no known safe amount of marijuana use during pregnancy or breastfeeding.































Source: L. 2019: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 19-224), ch. 315, p. 2843, § 5, effective January 1, 2020; (2)(ff) and (2)(gg) added, (HB 19-1230), ch. 340, p. 3118, § 14, effective January 1, 2020. L. 2020: (1)(i), (1)(j), and (2)(aa) amended and (1)(k) added, (HB 20-1424), ch. 184, p. 843, § 3, effective September 14. L. 2021: (2)(dd)(IX), (2)(ff)(VII), and (3)(a)(V) amended and (2)(hh), (2)(ii), (3)(a)(VII), and (3)(a)(VIII) added, (HB 21-1317), ch. 313, p. 1916, § 7, effective June 24; (1)(j) amended and (1)(j.5) and (9) added, (HB 21-1301), ch. 304, p. 1826, § 5, effective September 7; (2)(q) amended, (HB 21-1178), ch. 130, p. 524, § 3, effective September 7.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former §§ 44-12-202 (3), (4), and (5) and 44-11-202 (2)(a), (3)(a), and (4) as they existed prior to 2020.

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